Steve Mnuchin And Wife Audition For ‘Octopussy’ Remake

I don’t know if you’ve been paying attention, but Steve Mnuchin’s wife Louise Linton is kind of a piece of s**t. You may remember when over the summer she made an Instagram post bragging about all the expensive designer clothes she was wearing and then attacked a woman who pointed out she was jetting around on the taxpayer’s dime by basically saying she deserves it because she’s rich.

Well, her and her husband, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, posed for a photo op with an uncut sheet of $1 bills, the first sheet to bear his name, and it went about as well as you’d expect a photo of people who think they’re better than you because they have more money taking photos inside the Treasury would go.

Which is to say it worked out great for me and not so great for the Republicans who are currently trying to pass a tax bill that fucks most of the country to give The Baroness and Destro here a big tax cut. Needless to say, “Steve Mnuchin and his supervillain wife pose with money” became a meme instantly.

Mnuchin: We need to fight the perception that we're just a couple of out-of-touch plutocrats
Treasury PR person: Hold on boss I've got just the thing pic.twitter.com/uFT2vGzujw

— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) November 15, 2017

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin re-creates his marriage proposal to wife Louise Linton on a visit to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing pic.twitter.com/XYvUQJMyvH

— Robyn Urback (@RobynUrback) November 15, 2017

Why do Treasury Sec Mnuchin and his wife insist on posing for photos that make them look like Bond villains? pic.twitter.com/2auZr3LGoP

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) November 15, 2017

These are gonna look great in documentaries about financial crimes that happened on Mnuchin’s watch pic.twitter.com/vbSjc0z8qj

— Khanoisseur 🐶🤦🏻‍♂️🌎 (@Khanoisseur) November 15, 2017

Beautiful photo of Louise Linton with the love of her life and also Steven Mnuchin pic.twitter.com/MOfKzrF9u1

— Jason O. Gilbert (@gilbertjasono) November 15, 2017

Photographer, to Louise Linton:

OK, give me your best "Let 'em eat cake" face.
Ahh, perfect. pic.twitter.com/QgOdnfS2fF

— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) November 15, 2017

A running sub-meme of this meme is pointing out that Linton is dressed almost exactly the same as Kylo Ren, the villain in the new Star Wars movies.

Steven Mnuchin’s wife, Louise Linton, is sporting some serious Kylo Ren cosplay! pic.twitter.com/ZRbrpUq26c

— 𝘋𝘠𝘓𝘈𝘕 𝘑𝘖𝘉𝘌 (@DylanJobe) November 16, 2017

So much going on in this photo but I am shocked to find out Steven Mnuchin’s wife killed Han Solo pic.twitter.com/Ic2GBIemGC

— Dusty (@DustinGiebel) November 15, 2017

Steve Mnuchin's wife being Kylo Rem is my favorite meme. Also, he should be in prison. But also his wife is Kylo Ren.

— Jurassic Park's Defense Attorney (@RealWSchuster) November 16, 2017

Steve Mnuchin's wife is almost ready to become 501st approved as Kylo Ren!@DustinGiebel @stealthygeek @MollyJongFast pic.twitter.com/14EVpDNZp5

— Mattheus Crowley (@MaesterCrowley) November 15, 2017

Also other movie villains.

Everyone's focused on Steve Mnuchin & the sheet of money but no one's talking about how his wife has been murdering Toons in The Dip. pic.twitter.com/iTcJlXKcS6

— Johnny "The Crypt Renter" McNulty (@JohnnyMcNulty) November 15, 2017

This is not the same meme, but really A+ work here, guy.

Steve Mnuchin seems so much less douchey when his voice has been replaced with gurgling sounds… pic.twitter.com/345aGDmP43

— ElElegante101 (@skolanach) November 15, 2017

Writer and actress Quinn Cummings used the opportunity to share a story about Linton, with whom she used to run in the same social circles. Big props for the turn of phrase “Marie Antoine-not,” Quinn. I’m jealous I never thought of that one.

So, Louise Linton story. Friend went to bridal shower of acquaintance. My friend isn't fancy, but acquaintance has aspirations above her station. Much older fiancé, much lucre, you get it. Anywho, at said fancy event, this woman comes swanning in, 1/

— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) November 15, 2017

looking like the fanciest whore in the local Four Seasons bar. Daytime bridal shower, she's in leather pants, over the knee boots. Big, tacky engagement ring. Yep, it's Louise. My friend catches the whispers among the other women. Even among these 2/

— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) November 15, 2017

gold-diggers, she's considered a bit of a tacky gold-digger. Lots of loud bragging about her fiancé Steve and how powerful he is. Here's the thing. You ever heard her brag about how she was raised in a castle? That one always confused me; 3/

— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) November 15, 2017

owing to a misspent twenties, I know people who were raised in castles. They can be nice, they can be ghastly, but they're not her kind of ghastly. Well, my friend starts chatting with the only other non-fancy person in the room, an older man who seems completely out of 4/

— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) November 15, 2017

place. He has a Scottish accent. They start talking real estate, because it's LA. He proudly tells her about how he bought a run-down castle in Scotland, made bits of it habitable as they lived in it…it's Marie Antoine-Not's father. 5/

— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) November 15, 2017

All respect to someone for taking on that kind of insane project, but she's not manor-born. She had a father who could scrape together the money to buy a shell and the stubbornness to live in it while creating plumbing. 6/

— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) November 15, 2017

My friend said he was funny, lovely, and worth 20 of that bleached, tacky, fishlipped, faux-fancy offspring of his. EOT/

— Quinn Cummings (@quinncy) November 15, 2017